Sunday, March 11, 2007

Don't Forget to Set Your Clocks!


In the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin; "Early to bed and early to rise / Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

As a lot of you already know, Daylight Savings Time has been moved up this year to the second Sunday of March (March 11). So remember to set those clocks forward an hour.

From wikipedia:

"Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in late winter or early spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Details vary by location and change occasionally; see When it starts and stops below.

Governments often promote DST as an energy conservation measure because it substitutes summer afternoon sunlight for electrical lighting. However, in some cases DST can increase energy costs."


and to think "DST was first proposed in 1907 by William Willett.[4] An avid golfer, he disliked cutting short his round at dusk."

Wikipedia: Day Light Savings

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